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The United Nations proclaimed 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. This marks the 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics. 

It was with deep sadness that we learned that Bernard Giovannini passed away on July 31, 2024 at the age of 87.

Dr. Giacomo Sala, in the group of Andrea Caviglia, has received a highly competitive SNSF Ambizione fellowship. Ambizione grants are aimed at early career researchers who wish to conduct, manage and lead an independent project at a Swiss higher education institution.

How can a structure hold together when its individual components repel each other ? An international research team has answered this question demonstrating an example of such a highly excited exotic quantum state of the matter. Researchers from the universities of Geneva, Augsburg, Bonn and...

Giulia Venditti, in the group of Louk Rademaker obtains a highly competitive SNSF postdoctoral fellowship. The main aim of her project Xtra-Ordinary Vortices (XVORTEX) is to study the intertwining of topological defects and the topology of the electronic degrees of freedom in novel 2D systems.

Javier Taboada Gutierrez, in the group of Alexey Kuzmenko has received a highly competitive SNSF postdoctoral fellowship. In his proposal, he investigates polariton-Landau level coupling in layered structures to pioneer nano-opto-magnetic tools for precise light manipulation at the nanoscale. The ...

A marking technology developed by PHASIS, a spin-off of the DQMP, was nominated among the 5 best innovations at the EPHJ 2024 fair (PALEXPO, Geneva).

The next MaNEP Winter School will be held from January 12 to 17, 2025 in Saas-Fee.

Congratulations to Antoine Georges who has been elected an international member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The ceremony took place on April 26th, 2024 during the 161th NAS Annual meeting in Washington DC.

An international research team from Innsbruck and Geneva has, for the first time, probed the dimensional crossover for ultracold quantum matter. In the regime between one and two dimensions, the quantum particles perceive their world as being 1D or 2D depending on the length scale on which they...

MaNEP offers 3rd and 4th year physics students the unique opportunity to work for a month this summer in one of the top research teams affiliated to the MaNEP Network, while receiving a financial support. Since 2004, these internships have successfully encouraged several of the participants to...

The scientific community has long been fascinated by the mysterious behavior of charge density waves (CDWs) in certain metals, particularly those based on vanadium in the kagome structure. A recent breakthrough, outlined in the paper titled "Phonon Promoted Charge Density Wave in Topological...

We are glad to announce that the new edition of the MaNEP Swiss Workshop on Materials with Novel Electronic Properties will take place in Les Diablerets from August 14th to 16th, 2024.

An international research team from Innsbruck and Geneva has developed a new thermometry method to measure temperatures for low-dimensional quantum gases. With this method it was found that compressing a gas may lead to cooling. The results on this counterintuitive phenomenon have just been...

A UNIGE team is developing new alloys with bactericidal properties to combat antibiotic-resistant germs.

The International Workshop “Electrons, Photons and Plasmons, 2024” will take place in presence on June 10-12 in Nyon, Switzerland.

It is known since 2004 that a boundary (interface) between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3, which are both insulating oxide materials, hosts an electrically conducting two-dimensional electron system (2DES). It is also known that two-dimensional electron systems support plasmon-polaritons, which are peculiar...

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